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String Skipping one of the difficult techniques a guitarist has to master. But once done properly can help you create some wild licks. Some of the Guitar Guru’s that do a lot of string skipping is Paul Gilbert. Paul has a lot of instructional videos(which will be available on Guitar Heat soon!!) share a lot of methods/licks on string skipping. Here is the first excercise.

Fig 1:
v = upstroke
^ = downstroke

v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ etc.
e|-12-13-15———————————-|
B|———————-12-14-15————-|
G|———-12-13-15————————-|
D|——————————–12-14-15—|
A|————————————————|
E|————————————————|

e|——————————————————|
B|——————————————————|
G|-12-13-15—————————————-|
D|————————12-13-15—————–|
A|————12-14-15—————————–|
E|———————————–12-13-15-12~|

Using a metronome along with this will really help you to correct your timing, build your speed(refer to the Guitar Speed Pattern 1 & 2), and will help you master these skipping excercises. Also, if you followed the picking arrows correctly, you might have seen that you were using ‘outside’ picking, meaning that with each string skip, the pick first travels over and past the string in the direction of the last pick stroke, changes direction and hits the string on the ‘outside’. The alternative to this is of course called inside picking. Here is another example that you can try.

Fig 2:
repeat
e|-8———————8————————|
B|————————————————-|
G|—12-10-9-10-12—12-10-9-10-12—|
D|————————————————|
A|————————————————|
E|————————————————|

Fig 3: (D major)
repeat
e|-10——————10———————10–|
B|—————————————————|
G|—-14-11—-11-14—-11-14—-11-14——|
D|———–12———————12————|
A|—————————————————-|
E|—————————————————-|

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